Jewish Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233521Author Nathan LauferFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 230mm * 152mm...

This Bible published in the classic King James Version includes cross references and extra-large print type allowing for an easy Bible reading experience. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for...

This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows...

Master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863645Author Alan HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187180Author Joshua LeiferFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This is the first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the Jews of Eastern Europe: their poverty, their towns and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis. Roth was conscious that this was a community living under the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683890423Author Lance LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lance Lambert Ministries, IncPublisher Lance Lambert Ministries, IncWeight(grams)...

The powerful and deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case, now dramatized in the film Denial.The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the Earth is flat. Yet there are those who...

'Football history at its best' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY'Hugely moving... a very good book indeed' FOUR FOUR TWO'Kuper is an original, sophisticated and adventurous writer. The story he has to tell... is fascinating and pressing' SUNDAY TIMESIn FOOTBALL AGAINST...

Peter Hayes has been teaching Holocaust studies for decades and Why? grows out of the questions he's encountered from his students. Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of...

One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive...

How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and...

Friends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel's advocates in Britain, showing how they contribute to maintaining Israeli apartheid. The book traces the history and changing fortunes of key actors within the...

The literary beauty of the King James Version and the most comfortable reading experience imaginable with Thomas Nelson's custom KJV font in a super-giant-print format. Don't miss anything God's Word has to offer with the KJV Super Giant Print Reference...

With recent attention from The New Yorker and a big increase in sales, it's clear Ginzburg's work still resonates with readers. A fresh new package and layout will appeal to established fans and attract new readers. Will include a new foreword or...

This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding. Based on a wide-range of sources in several languages, many previously unexplored and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668057858Author Emmanuel AchoFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

In Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, Ben M. Freeman, inspired by his experiences with LGBTQ+ pride, aims to educate, inspire and empower Jewish people to reject the shame of antisemitism imposed on Jews by the non-Jewish world as well as non-Jewish...

New, updated edition of an important and timely critique of Anti-Jewish sentiment on the left. A great deal has happened since the first edition of The Left's Jewish Problem came out in 2016. The Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other...

On the fortieth anniversary of the Camp David Accords, a groundbreaking new history that shows how Egyptian-Israeli peace ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessFor seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace...

Written over 40 years, this text seeks to: clarify the relation of certain aspects of Jewish thinking and Jewish living to contemporary intellectual movements; and to analyze those trends within Jewish life, which, surrendering to many ideologies, tend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156481144Author Mr Amos OzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 18mm

The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice - and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history - one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399916387Author Rebecca AbramsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Licoricia of Winchester AppealPublisher The Licoricia of Winchester Appeal

This biography tells the story of Andre and Magda Trocme, two individuals who made nonviolence a way of life. During World War II, the southern French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and its surrounding villages became a center where Jews and others in...

Unorthodox Kin is a groundbreaking exploration of identity, relatedness, and belonging in a global era. Naomi Leite paints an intimate portrait of Portugal's urban Marranos, who trace their ancestry to fifteenth-century Jews forcibly converted to...

Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell...

Outcast is an exploration - and explanation - of how the very possibility of recognising anti-Jewish racism has been displaced by the commonplace leftist belief that when Jewish people cry 'antisemitism!' their true intent is to cover up the real racism...

The question of identity is one of present-day Israel's cardinal and most pressing issues. In a comprehensive examination of the identity issue, this study focuses on attitudes toward the Jewish people in Israel and the Diaspora; the Holocaust and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034254Author Muriel EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London-the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism-Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this...

In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and...

Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last 7 October, the term “settler colonialism” has become a centre of political debate in the United States. Many progressives, academics and student organisations justified the attack on the grounds that Israel is a...

Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.Among the political philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss is usually singled out...

A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are:...

A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle...

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious...

Those who exit a religion-particularly one they were born and raised in-often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. In Degrees of Separation, Schneur Zalman Newfield, who went through this process himself,...

A powerful account of Jews living in Muslim lands and the surprising truths about their shared history The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. In...